Teachers and students in Myanmar have rallied to a growing civil disobedience campaign as the anti-coup protest movement won the support of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party.
Teachers became the latest group to join a civil disobedience campaign with some lecturers refusing to work or cooperate with authorities over the coup that halted a long and unsteady transition to democracy. Army chief Min Aung Hlaing took power citing alleged irregularities in a November election that the party won in a landslide.Teachers and students of Myanmar Mercantile Marine College flash three-finger salutes as they protest against the military coup in YangonThere has been no outpouring of people onto the streets in a country with a bloody history of crackdowns on protests but there were signs of coup opponents growing bolder - with dozens of youths parading in the southeastern city of Dawei.
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